Cairo University alumni

The list Cairo University alumni includes Saddam Hussein, Omar Sharif, Adel Emam, Poussi and Yasser Arafat. The list consists of 545 members.

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Cairo University

Public university with its main campus in Giza, Egypt

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Saddam Hussein

President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003

Overview: Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth ...

Date of birth: 28 April 1937

Date of death: 30 December 2006

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Anti-Israeli sentiment 71T

20th-century presidents in Asia 78T

Kurdish genocide perpetrators 8T
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Omar Sharif

Egyptian actor

Overview: Omar Sharif (Arabic: عمر الشريف born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. He began ...

Date of birth: 10 April 1932

Date of death: 10 July 2015

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Egyptian people of Levantine-Eastern Orthodox Christian descent 2T

Egyptian people of Arab descent 3T

People of Levantine-Eastern Orthodox Christian descent 12T
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Adel Emam

Egyptian actor

Overview: Adel Emam (Arabic: عادل إمام‎; born 17 May 1940) is an Egyptian film, television, and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, especially in his earlier ...

Date of birth: 17 May 1940

Date of death: 9 December 2009

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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21st-century Egyptian male actors 20T

Egyptian male stage actors 44T

Egyptian male television actors 62T
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Poussi

Egyptian actress

Overview: Poussi also Poussy or Boussy (Arabic: بوسي‎) real name Safenaz Moustafa Adry (Egyptian Arabic: صافيناز مصطفى قدري‎; born 26 November 1953) is a Cairo-born Egyptian actress.

Date of birth: 25 November 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Cairo 43T

Egyptian stage actresses 27T

Egyptian film actresses 125T
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Yasser Arafat

Palestinian political leader (1929–2004)

Overview: Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini ( ARR-ə-fat, AR-ə-FAHT; Arabic: محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني‎‎; 4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November ...

Date of birth: 24 August 1929

Date of death: 11 November 2004

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Palestinian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Politicians from Cairo 52T

Members of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization 28T

Central Committee of Fatah members 32T
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Arwa (singer)

Yemeni singer

Overview: Arwa (Arabic: أروى‎; born Iman Salem Ba'amiran (Arabic: إيمان سالم باعميران‎); July 8, 1979) is a Yemeni-Egyptian singer and television host.

Date of birth: 27 July 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: Yemeni

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Yemeni emigrants to Egypt 1T

20th-century Yemeni women 6T

21st-century Yemeni women 11T
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Asmaa Mahfouz

Egyptian activist

Overview: Asmaa Mahfouz (Egyptian Arabic: أسماء محفوظ‎, born 1 February 1985) is an Egyptian activist and one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement. She has been credited by journalist Mona Eltahawy ...

Date of birth: 1 February 1985

Age: 40

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Sakharov Prize laureates 42T

Egyptian women activists 16T

People of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 84T
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Taha Hussein

Egyptian writer (1889–1973)

Overview: Taha Hussein (Arabic: طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the ...

Date of birth: 14 November 1889

Date of death: 28 October 1973

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Writer

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People associated with the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation 45T

International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation 45T

Egyptian liberalists 4T
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Randa Al Behery

Egyptian model and actress (born 1983)

Overview: Randa El Behery (Arabic: راندا البحيري‎) is an Egyptian model and actress.

Date of birth: 8 August 1983

Age: 41

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Actresses from Cairo 69T

21st-century Egyptian actresses 43T

Egyptian film actresses 136T
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Mais Hamdan

Jordanian, Actress

Overview: Mais Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Selim (Arabic: ميس عبد الجبار حمدان سليم‎, born October 31, 1982), better known as Mais Hamdan (Arabic: ميس حمدان‎), is a Jordanian actress, singer and TV presenter ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1982

Age: 42

Nationality: Jordanian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Jordanian actresses 7T

Jordanian film actresses 4T

Jordanian television actresses 6T
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Sharifa Dina bint Abdul-Hamid

Queen of Jordan from 1955 to 1957

Overview: Sharifa Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (Arabic: دينا بنت عبد الحميد‎; 15 December 1929 – 21 August 2019) was a Hashemite princess and the Queen of Jordan from 1955 until 1957 as the first wife of King Hussein ...

Date of birth: 1928

Date of death: 21 August 2019

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Jordanian

Occupation: Spouse

Gender: Female

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Remarried royal consorts 205T

20th-century Arab people 166T

2019 deaths 10,235T
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Basma

Egyptian actress (born 1976)

Overview: Basma Ahmed Sayyed Hassan (Arabic: بسمة أحمد سيد حسن‎; born December 7, 1976) is an Egyptian actress.

Date of birth: 7 December 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Cairo 72T

Egyptian film actresses 138T

Egyptian television actresses 102T
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Sameera Moussa

Egyptian nuclear physicist

Overview: Sameera Moussa (Egyptian Arabic: سميرة موسى‎) (March 3, 1917 – August 5, 1952) was the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Sameera held a doctorate in atomic radiation. She hoped her work would ...

Date of birth: 3 March 1917

Date of death: 5 August 1952

Age: 35 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Egyptian women physicists 1T

Women nuclear physicists 44T

Egyptian women scientists 6T
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Gamal Abdel Nasser

Egyptian politician (1918–1970)

Overview: Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (, ; Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر حسين‎, Jamāl ʻAbdu n-Nāṣir Ḥusayn, 15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt, serving from 1954 until his death ...

Date of birth: 15 January 1918

Date of death: 28 September 1970

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

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Deputy Prime Ministers of Egypt 11T

20th-century presidents in Africa 53T

Egyptian people of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War 12T
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Mohamed Atta

9/11 hijacker

Overview: Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta (AT-ah; Arabic: محمد محمد الأمير عوض السيد عطا‎ Muḥammad Muḥammad al-Amir 'Awaḍ as-Sayyid 'Aṭā September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was an Egyptian ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1968

Date of death: 11 September 2001

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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2001 suicides 47T

Hamburg cell 13T

People from Kafr El Sheikh Governorate 18T
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Amr Khaled

Egyptian television preacher (born 1967)

Overview: Amr Mohamed Helmi Khaled (Arabic: عمرو محمد حلمي خالد‎; born September 5, 1967) is an Egyptian Muslim activist and television preacher. The New York Times Magazine, in reference to Khaled's popularity ...

Date of birth: 5 September 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: Egyptian

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Islamic television preachers 16T

Egyptian religious leaders 28T

Arab television personalities 33T
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Zahi Hawass

Egyptian, Archaeologist

Overview: Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس‎; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites ...

Date of birth: 28 May 1947

Age: 78

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Male

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Fulbright alumni 796T

Antiquities ministers of Egypt 3T

21st-century Egyptian politicians 74T
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Salma Abu Deif

Egyptian Actress and Model

Overview: Salma Abu Deif (Arabic: سلمى أبو ضيف) is an Egyptian actress and fashion model.

Date of birth: 2 February 1994

Age: 31

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Partner: Idris Abdel Aziz (Married)

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Actresses from Cairo 77T

Egyptian film actresses 148T

Egyptian television actresses 111T
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Nadia Al-Kokabany

Yemeni Novelist

Overview: Nadia Al-Kokabany is a Yemeni novelist, short story writer and academic. She was born in Taiz and studied architecture at Sanaa University. She completed a PhD in architecture at Cairo University in 2008 ...

Nationality: Yemeni

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Yemeni writers 10T

21st-century Yemeni women writers 7T

Yemeni women novelists 2T
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Anis Mansour

Egyptian writer

Overview: Anis Mansour, also transliterated as Anīs Manṣūr (Arabic: أنيس منصور, ) (18 August 1924 – 21 October 2011) was an Egyptian writer.

Date of birth: 18 August 1924

Date of death: 21 October 2011

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Deaths from pneumonia in Egypt 5T

20th-century Egyptian writers 48T

People from Mansoura, Egypt 42T